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In February last year, my wife lost her job. Just as suddenly, the owner of the greenhou where I worked as manager died of heart attack. His family announced that they were going to clo the business becau no one in the family wanted to run it. Things looked pretty gloomy (令人沮丧的). My wife and I read the want a____1____ each day. Then one morning, as I was hanging out the "Going Out of Business" sign at the greenhou, the door opened, and in walked a c____2____. She was an office manager who company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of town. She was looking for pots and plants to place in the reception (接待) a____3____ in the offices. “I don't know anything about plants,” she said, “I'm sure in a few weeks they'll all be dead.” While I was helping her choo her purchas, my m____4____ was racing. Perhaps as many as a dozen companies have r____5____ opened offices in the new office park, and there were veral hundred more estates with construction underway. That afternoon, I drove out to the office park. By six o'clock that evening, I had signed contractsiframe (合同) with ven companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. Within a week,
I had worked out an a____6____ to lea (租黑衣人3主题曲) the greenhou from the owner's family. Business is now i____7____ rapidly, and one day, we hope to be the proud owners of the greenhou.
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You have a stomach-ache, diarrhea (腹泻) and a fever at night after you eat or drink something. You might have food poisoning (中毒)! What should you do?
Before going to e the doctor, you may do the following:
• Put your f____1____ into your throat (喉咙). It may help you t____2____ up what you have eaten.
• Drink salty w____3____.
• If the a____4____ two ideas don't help, go to e the doctor at once.
The best way is to try to stop it before it h____5____.
bolt是什么意思• Wash your hands if you're helping mum cook.
• Wash fruits and vegetables well before eating them.
• Take a c____6____ look or smell at the food in the fridge. If it doesn't look or smell g____7____, you'd better not eat it.
• Only cat foods that are cooked well.
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One day you may be able to live to 125, without illness.
A team of Spanish scientists has made a genetic breakthrough (突破). They say it could a____1____ humans to live longer and even protect them against cancer.
They carried out gene (基因) e____2____ on mice. Results show that the mice lived 45 percent longer and were free from cancer.
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The rearchers are c____3____ that this could also work on humans --- perhaps within 20 years. There are genes for long life in both mice and humans and they play similar roles. And they say that the breakthrough could one day e all humans benefiting from a longer and h____4____ life.
Leading geneticists and cancer experts say the development is both a____5____ and exciting.
Normally, mice live for an a____6____ of three years. The rearchers managed to c____7____ mice, which lived around four-and-a-half years. Scientists say this is about 125 years of age for humans.
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Italian "noodles" are different from Chine noodles.
Italian pasta (通心粉面条) comes in an almost infinite (无限的) number of forms, not just long 考研英语复习计划strands (细条). Italian people make pastas that look like shells, bows, ribbons, fl
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owers and many other s____1____ to hold sauces better.
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桅杆的读音 Pasta also comes in different colours. It can be red, green or black, with vegetables, spices, eggs or man-made colouring in it. Sauce is important in s____2____ pasta. Some say it's the sauce that makes Italian pasta s____3____. People u not only pork or vegetables, as you do with Chine noodles, but also cream, olives (橄榄) and afood!
It is s____4____ that there are more than 500 kinds of Italian pasta. But if you add different sauces, the number could be more than 1,000.
You cook Chine noodles and Italian pasta similarly, except that you let the water go before m____5____ the pasta with sauce.
If you're not s____6____ whether pasta is done, just throw a piece at the wall. If it s____7____, it's time to prepare plates!
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Life is not easy as a Junior 3 student. You have the pressure (压力) of study and exams. From time to time, you may feel depresd (沮丧的). If that happens, you have to take measures (ttj5fe) to fight it. Eating salt might help you c____1____ up, scientists have found.
While too much salt can 1____2____ to high blood pressure and heart dia, not enough can cau depression, a study has reported.
Rearchers at the University of Lowa in the US did the study. They found that w____3____ enough salt in their bodies, rats don't do things they normally enjoy, like drinking sweet water.
post production Salt is a natural anti-depressant (抗抑郁剂), rearchers say.
Healthy experts recommend (建议) an adult take about six grams of salt a day. A gram of salt is about the s____4____ of a toothpaste cap.
Humans have a long history of salt eating. In the S____5____ Age, people didn't need
to find salt, becau they h____6____ animals, and ate lot of red meat. Red meat has plenty of salt. But when people began to farm, in about 10,000 B. C., they started to eat more grain (谷物) and much less meat. They had to find a____7____ way to get salt. As time went by, salt became a asoning (调味料).
